sarcopenia

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek σάρξ (sárx, “flesh”) +‎ πενῐ́ᾱ (peníā, “poverty, want”)

Noun

sarcopenia (usually uncountable, plural sarcopenias)

1. (pathology) gradual age-related loss of skeletal muscle

Derived terms

• sarcopenic
• osteosarcopenia

Translations

gradual age-related loss of skeletal muscle

• Dutch: spierverlies n, sarcopenia f, sarcopenie (nl) f
• French: sarcopénie (fr) f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Latin: sarcopenia f
• Polish: sarkopenia (pl) f

References

• http://www.wordspy.com/words/sarcopenia.asp
• http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=AbstractPlus&list_uids=17052879&query_hl=1&itool=pubmed_docsum

Anagrams

• paranoeics, paranœics

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Dutch

Noun

sarcopenia f (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of sarcopenie

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Spanish

Noun

sarcopenia f (plural sarcopenias)

1. sarcopenia